MLK Day

Bob Englehart

If Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would’ve just turned 86 years old. He very well could still be alive if he hadn’t been assassinated. He could possibly be frail or in robust good health. He could still be preaching, marching, praying, writing and offering his opinion on events of the day. We’ll never know. That’s what killers do; they rob us all of solutions. His day Monday is not just another three-day weekend. It’s a day to reflect and with the events in Paris last week and before that, the police shootings of young African Americans, it’s a day to ask ourselves if our country is as free as we think it is. Is it free for all people? If not, why not? Does it have to be that way? Shouldn’t we be more united in these United States? Wouldn’t we be stronger and more able to fight terrorism? I’ll answer that. Yes.